Boat classified's and reality !

[bradford]

I'm on the other end of the spectrum. I've got a 17' center console for sale with a rotten transom and a 70's era 115 merc that hasn't been run in 7 years. It's sitting on a galvinized trailer that is in decent shape. I'm asking 300 dollars for the whole rig, and I get phone calls like this:

RING RING

Me: "Hello"
Them: "Yeah Main, Imma callin bout that boat ya got sittin in yer frawnt yard."
Me: "Yeah man what can I tell you about it?"
Them: (First question out of the gate) "Is 3 hunert the lowest you'll go?"
Me: "Over the phone, uh Yeah".
Them: "Everything werks onit rite?"
Me: "Uh, No man It's a project. If everything worked on it I'd be asking about ten times as much."
Them: "Uh... well... uh, will ya take payments?"
Me: "No man, sorry"

It sucks trying to sell anything these days. I hardly list anything on craigslist anymore because some yahoo from hinesville will waste your entire afternoon while you wait for him to drive to the coast to buy a $50 item and then not show.

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by bradford

It sucks trying to sell anything these days. I hardly list anything on craigslist anymore because some yahoo from hinesville will waste your entire afternoon while you wait for him to drive to the coast to buy a $50 item and then not show.

Whenever I list anything on Craigs I always put in lines that says something like the first one with cash gets it, I will not hold it for anyone, even if they've been out to look at it already, and I put in the times and days that it's available for viewing. Doesn't work all the time, but it does help.

[bgreene]

So many junk boats out there...........so little time........

[Shrek]

I'm just trying to understand how the price a person paid for the boat can influence the current value of the thing (this actually seems to go for everything these days).

This was a local advert from a few weeks ago, used as an example.
1977 Glastron trihull, 16"[sic] with 70 evenrued[sic]. Runs good and needs TLC. Paid $6300. Will sell for $5000. My loss is you're[sic] gain.

Really?

I'm looking for a used chartplotter and I am amazed how everyone wants to sell them for 70% of the cost of a new one without including the antenna or various other bits, which will put you to the cost of a new plotter which will come with maps preloaded. The worst part is that there are a lot of short sighted suckers out there who are buying this stuff at this inflated price.

Hard to be a bargain hunter in a depressed economy.